Improvement in transplanting-tools



J. G. BOWMAN.

Transplanting-T001.

No. 199,501. Patented Jan; 22, I878.

a /7 vi v41 El iW%%ES 1 a adv/M fimvemgl ATTORNEY N-PEFERS,FHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER WASHINGTON, 0. C.

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|M PROVEM ENT IN TRANSPLANTlNG-TOOLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 199,501, dated January22, 1878', application filed November 24, 1877 of a side view of thisinvention. open. Fig. 2

is a sectional view of the same, taken through the line as w of Fig. 1.

This invention has relation to improvements in transplanters; and thenature of the invention consists in certain novel combinations of parts,whereby very useful results are attained, as will be hereinafter morefully set forth.

In the annexed drawings, the letters A A designate the levers of myimproved transplanter, preferablymade of wood, and provided at theirupper ends with manipulating-handles B. 0 represents metallic plates ofsuitable strength, secured by means of bolts and nuts, or theirequivalents, to the inner surfaces of the levers A A. At a point onthese plates about midway of the length of the transplanter lugs a areformed, having each an eye, by means of which and a pivot, a, the saidlevers are hinged together. Above this fulcrum the plates 0 are eachprovided with a projecting spur, b, to which a helical spring, a, isrigidly but removably secured, and at about the same distance below thefulcrum aforesaid with a guiding device, D, of the followingdescription: One of the plates 0 is provided with a rabbeted spur, d,that enters a recess of corresponding shape in a spur, d, upon theopposite plate 0, the said spur cl being bifurcated for the purpose. Therabbeted spur is always engaged in the recess of the spur d, andprevents the pivot 01 from being wrenched, and compels thespring toreact and act in its longitudinal axis, whereby its strength is fullyexercised and maintained in an unimpaired condition, there being notwisting or racking.

thereof possible.

The letters 0. represent two plates, secured, respectively, to therespective levers A A, and extending downwardly therefrom. The saidplates are then turned outward in a bend, c, and extended down, as shownat c, in aflattened form, and secured to the curved shovels G upon theirinsides.

H represent-s metallic foot-rests, secured to the outside of levers A Anear their lower ends. These rests are secured to the levers by boltsand nuts, and are formed by bending a fiat plate of metal in angularform, with one end, i, turned in at right angles to the bearing f, andperforated to receive the upper bolt -g below the tread, and the otherextended ing therewith. Under these circumstances the springiscompressed, and if the shovels are thrust into the ground and a plantdug up,

the disengagement of the gage causes the spring to react, compresses theearth between the shovels, and holds the plant firmly. It also reducesthe bulk of the soil, so that by opening the levers A A it readily dropsinto a hole prepared for its reception.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a transplanter, the combination, with the pivoted leversA A andthe spring 0, of

the gage J, as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination, with the pivoted levers A A and spring a, of theguide 1), consisting of the recessed spur d and the rabbeted spur d,engaged in said recessed spur, substantially as specified.

3. The levers A A, having shovels G upon their ends of less dimensionsthan a half-cylinder, the fulcrum a a, the spring cabove said fulcrum,the guide D below it, and the gage J, combined, arranged, and operatingas set In testimony. that I claim the-above-I' -have forth. hereuntosubscribed my name in the presence 4. The combination, with the shovelsGand of two witnesses.

levers A A of a transplanter, of outside footplates H, extendingdownwardly and forming JOHN CALHOUN BOWMAN.

supports for the shovels, and the inside plates 0, extending below thelevers,and forming Witnesses:

braces to strengthen the lower ends of the ELISHA W. BURTON,

plates H at their point of attachment to the J. BENTON WRIGHT.

shovels, substantially as specified.

